In Reply to: RE: BS .. current DACs are the best. Only nostalgia keeps NOS/tube players alive. posted by morricab on April 16, 2014 at 05:42:16:
I just flopped a $350 modern DAC, the Grant Fidelity Tube DAC-11, which I preferred in pure SS mode, ran it without the tube in fact.
It was every bit the equal of my Consonance CD 120 Linear, a NOS design. A remarkable accomplishment for such a modestly priced DAC.
That's what I'm getting at, even entry level DAC there days had are the equal of or eclipse NOS designs, making choice of the latter to avoid the dreaded 'digital' sound a thing of the past ... and that's just entry level ... spend a little and a NOS alternatives becomes entirely archaic.
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- RE: BS .. current DACs are the best. Only nostalgia keeps NOS/tube players alive. - bjh 07:46:57 04/16/14 (6)
- RE: BS .. current DACs are the best. Only nostalgia keeps NOS/tube players alive. - morricab 17:04:36 04/16/14 (5)
- RE: BS .. current DACs are the best. Only nostalgia keeps NOS/tube players alive. - bjh 21:46:45 04/16/14 (4)
- RE: BS .. current DACs are the best. Only nostalgia keeps NOS/tube players alive. - morricab 02:35:06 04/17/14 (3)
- pfft nt - bjh 06:57:33 04/17/14 (2)
- RE: pfft nt - morricab 06:40:59 04/18/14 (1)
- That sound he makes... it's a sound of lost argument. - carcass93 09:34:06 04/18/14 (0)